Fifty new
Kendriya Vidyalayas (KVs) will be established across the country to provide
quality education to around 50,000 students with the Cabinet giving a go ahead
to the project.

Focussing on
women welfare and new born, Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao has
come out with an innovative scheme – "KCR Kit". The government
proposes to earmark Rs.605 crore for the
scheme.

Karnataka
Govt has announced an Idea2POC (Proof of Concept) fund of Rs 10 crore for women
entrepreneurs.

On the
occasion of 127th Foundation Day of National Archives of India (NAI), an
exhibition entitled “Revolutionary Patriots (1905-1947)” was inaugurated by
Shri N.K. Sinha, Secretary, Ministry of Culture in the presence of Shri
Raghvendra Singh.

The Lok
Sabha on 10 March 2017 passed the Admiralty (Jurisdiction and Settlement of
Maritime Claims) Bill,2016.

CBSE makes 6
subjects mandatory for Students appearing Class X board exams from next year

NTPC
commissions 45 MW of Bhadla solar plant in Rajasthan.

Parliament
approved a bill granting women working in the organized sector paid maternity
leave of 26 weeks, up from 12 weeks now.

India has
announced an Open Acreage Licensing Policy (OALP) for conducting oil and gas exploration in
India.

India's first
smart tribal village 'Habbi' inaugurated in Jammu and Kashmir.

CBSE
introduces "Exam Locator" app to help students appearing for class
10th and 12th examinations to locate their exam centres.

The Indian
Institute of Science (IISc) in Bangalore has become the first Indian
educational institution to make it to the top 10 of a global ranking for
universities and IISc has been ranked eighth in the Times Higher Education or
THE Rankings, 2017 in the “best small universities” category.

PM Modi
released a commemorative postage stamp on 100 years of Yogoda Satsang Math on
the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Yogoda Satsanga Society of India.

PM Modi to
Inaugurate India’s Longest Cable Bridge in Gujarat.

International

Madhukar
Gupta committee has submitted report to Government of India (GoI) to strengthen
border protection

In UK, the
House of Lords has passed the Brexit bill, paving the way for the government to
trigger Article 50 so the UK can leave the EU.

Pakistan is
set to conduct its first national census in 19 years.

A South
African man "Chris Bertish" has become the first person to cross the
Atlantic Ocean on a stand-up paddleboard after completing an epic 4,050-mile
voyage alone at sea.

According to
the Global Corruption Barometer released by Transparency International (TI), in
Berlin for 16 Asia Pacific countries India tops the list for being the most
corrupt nation.

Europe
launched fifth Sentinel Earth observation satellite.

Defence
& Railway

India
successfully test-fired the BrahMos supersonic cruise missile, which is capable
of carrying a warhead of 300 kg, from a test range along the Odisha coast.

The Vice
Admiral Girish Luthra has commissioned INS Tillanchang to the Indian Navy in
Karwar, Karnataka.

Central Bank
of India has been awarded first prize in the implementation of Official
Language Policy in the western region for the year 2015-2016.

State Bank
of India has announced a one-time farm loan settlement scheme worth 6,000 crore
rupees primarily for tractors.

As per RBI
data, ICICI Bank topped the list of banks that witnessed most number of frauds
during April to December period of 2016 with state-owned SBI taking the second
spot.

RBI to issue
new Rs 10 notes soon with high security features, old notes to remain valid.

Airtel
Payments Bank, offered by telecom major Bharti Airtel, announced that over one
lakh savings accounts were opened in 100 villages across Tamil Nadu.

All limits
on savings bank cash withdrawals post-demonetisation ended on Monday, as had
been announced by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) last month.

Non-Banking
Finance Companies (NBFCs) cannot lend more than Rs 25,000 in cash against gold
according to latest report of RBI.

Digital
wallet player Paytm will now levy a 2% fee for adding money to Paytm wallet
using credit cards.

In a bid to
make transactions through e-wallets safer and strengthen the grievance
redressal mechanism for consumers, a government has released a set of
guidelines for wallet firms.

SBI recently
announced that penalty for non-maintenance of Minimum Average Balance (MAB)
from April 1, 2017 as government asked SBI to reconsider charges. Arundhati
Bhattacharya, SBI chief clarify that the condition of maintaining minimum
balance will not be applicable to the Jan Dhan accounts.

State Bank
of India and real estate developers’ body (Confederation of Real Estate
Developers' Associations of India) CREDAI have signed a memorandum of
understanding (MoU) to jointly conduct various initiatives towards development
of the realty sector.

Private
insurer Future Generali India Insurance Company (FGII) has entered into a
corporate agency tie-up for its products with public lender UCO Bank.

Full-service
airline Jet Airways has announced a partnership with ride-hailing app Uber to
book airport cabs through the Jet Airways app itself.

The Gujarat
government has entered into an agreement with a global cloud-based solutions
provider cloudBuy.com to develop a B2B marketplace for small and large business
units in the state.

U.S. chip
giant Intel has agreed to buy Israeli driverless technology firm Mobileye for
$15.3 billion, the largest ever acquisition of an Israeli high-tech company.

Korea’s
Hyundai Engineering Co has signed a deal worth 3 billion euros (USD 3.2
billion) with an Iranian investment fund to invest in a major Iranian oil
project.

Technology
giant Google has announced the acquisition of Kaggle, a start-up that hosts a
number of data scientists, for an undisclosed amount at the Cloud Next 2017
conference.

India-Belgium
signs Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement and Protocol

MakeMyTrip,
PayPal partner for hotel bookings.

Summit/Conference/Fest/Host

President of
India inaugurates the 12th CII-Exim bank conclave on India Africa Project
Partnership in New Delhi.

The 10th
edition of the International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic
Governance (ICEGOV 2017) was held in New Delhi

The 2017
International Conference on the “Vision Zero” and its relevance to Occupational
Safety and Health (OSH) has started in New Delhi.

Sports

The Court of
Arbitration for Sport (CAS) upheld a lifetime ban levied against Sergei
Portugalov, former chief of the Russian Athletics Federation's Medical
Commission for his role in providing illicit substances to Russian athletes.

Lee Chong
Wei of Malaysia has lifted the Men's Singles crown at the All England Open
badminton championships.

SSP
Chawrasia has become only the second Indian golfer to successfully defend the
Hero Indian Open title.

India’s
Ravichandran Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja have become the first pair of spinners
to be jointly top-ranked in the MRF Tyres ICC Player Rankings for Test Bowlers

The Sports
Ministry has decided to constitute a high-level committee to resolve the
grievances and complaints of women sports persons in India.

Uruguay's
Pablo Cuevas won his third consecutive Brasil Open title by beating Spain's
Albert Ramos-Vinolas in a final that eventually finished more than 24 hours
late after successive rain delays.

The Punjab
football team has won the 71st Santosh Trophy football tournament by defeating
Railways in the final. Its was the 9th trophy for Punjab.

RSS chief
Mohan Bhagwat was conferred the honorary degree of Doctor of Science (DSc) by
the Nagpur-based Maharashtra Animal and Fishery Sciences University.

Indian
Institute of Technology-Madras has won the 2017 Institute of Electrical and
Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Spectrum Technology in the Service of Society
Award for its solar-direct current (DC) inverter system.

Aishwarya
Rai Bachchan wins best actress award for Sarbjit at the International Film
Festival and Awards of Australia (IFFAA).

GMR group
led Rajiv Gandhi Hyderabad International Airport has secured ranks 1st in world
in airport service quality

Jiratchaya
Sirimongkolnawin of Thailand has been crowned the new Miss International Queen
2016.